Lorena Garcia

Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself (eBook, ePUB)

Latina Girls and Sexual Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expression

While Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as "helpless" or "risky" (or worse) suggest. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena Garcia examines how Latina girls negotiate their emerging sexual identities and attempt to create positive sexual experiences for themselves. Through a focus on their sexual agency, Garcia demonstrates that Latina girls' experiences with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality inform how they engage and begin to rework their meanings and processes of gender and sexuality, emphasizing how Latina youth themselves understand their sexuality, particularly how they conceptualize and approach sexual safety and pleasure. At a time of controversy over the appropriate role of sex education in schools, Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, provides a rare look and an important understanding of the sexual lives of a traditionally marginalized group.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814769911
• Artikelnr.: 49741143

Autorenporträt

Lorena Garcia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity.